instead used a gene gun to fire DNA-coated gold particles into plant cells. Some of that DNA is incorporated then into the genome.
He notes that Agrobacterium inserts genes more efficiently than the gene-gun method. Although zinc-fingers are appealing for their specificity
If he had used a gene gun, he would have inserted DNA haphazardly and in a manner more likely to damage other sites in the genome yet this remains the unregulated method."
Garth Lenz/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013in'Oil spoils'by Garth Lenz, an aerial view shows the devastation caused by tar-sands mining in Alberta, Canada.
Gun controls The US Department of health and human services proposed on 3 Â January that patient-privacy exemptions should be created
so that relevant mental-health records can be submitted to the national databases used to screen potential gun buyers.
So far, background checks have prevented the sale of more than 2 Â million firearms, according to the White house.
But some researchers who study firearms violence have called for better safeguards against gun ownership by those who are mentally ill (see Nature 496,412-415;
and preventing suicidal people from accessing firearms. See page 131 for more. Wolf plan flawed The US government s proposal to weaken protection for grey wolves (Canis lupus) is not based on good science,
And in 2012, three wolves were found dead in an abandoned mining pit. Given this history of human influence,
and prohibits military activity or mining; 28 countries maintain research stations subject to review by the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs which oversees best practices of scientific research on the continent.
lets go mine the stars...i think treating the moon like the Antartic is a terrible idea
But if you send a robot to mine the surface and send the minerals back you would own the area in
which you are capable of mining. In the west ranchers set barbed wire to hold their cattle and this in effect set up their property boundaries.@
while 8 foot tall super soldiers use rocket powered grenade firing rifles to carry out the will of their emperor who is in reality pretty much dead.
Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars easily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof an average of once an hour.
His company Velodyne makes a unit that packs 64 lasers in a turret that typically rotates at 600 rpm continuously strafing the landscape with 64 separate beams.
#One Farmer And His Engineered Non-Browning Applesfor a small-time farmer Neal Carter has received a lot of big-time attention.
's latest weapon: a fingerprint reader it's calling Touch ID. With its move Apple could end up making the technology commonplace as rivals might feel compelled to follow suit.
How Do You Dispose of Chemical Weapons? In the midst of a particularly brutal civil war international attention focused on the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons against civilians.
With a potential deal on the table for Russia to take and store Syria's chemical weapons here is a look at what chemical weapons are and
what it takes to safely dispose of them. Broadly a chemical weapon is a toxic chemical delivered by an explosion such as a bomb artillery shell or missile.
Chemical weapons injure and kill people through horrific reactions including choking nerve damage blood poisoning and blistering.
The first chemical weapons used in World war i were released gases from canisters. Today chemical weapons are carried typically liquids in bombs or shells.
The chemicals like sulfur mustards commonly called mustard gas) or sarin are dispersed in the air like a mist. Technically this means they aren't gases;
they're liquid aerosol with droplets carried through the air. World war i saw the first major use of chemical weapons with 124000 metric tons of chemical agent unleashed by nations including the UK Germany and France.'
'There's no easy solution there's no pixie dust magic vaporization portal.''Before WORLD WAR II Italy used chemical weapons in Ethiopia and during WORLD WAR II Japan used them in China.
Throughout the Cold war both the Soviet union and the United states developed and stockpiled chemical weapons. While the United states never used them in war a declassified CIA document alleges Soviet use during their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
Egypt was the first country to use chemical weapons in war after WORLD WAR II. Egypt joined a civil war in Yemen in 1963 where the Egyptian militarty dropped sulfur mustard bombs on enemy troops sheltering in mountain caves.
Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein used sulfur mustards and the nerve agent Tabun against Iran in the 1980s during the Iran-iraq war and against the Kurdish people in northern Iraq in 1988.
Chemical weapons appear to have been used against civilians in the ongoing Syrian Civil war between the dictatorial regime of Bashar al Assad and a loose collection of rebel groups.
Syria's chemical weapons stockpile predates the recent conflict. Following a series of military defeats in war against Israel the Syrian government began amassing sulfur mustards sarin and VX (a nerve agent.
Syria could have acquired its first chemical weapons as early as 1973 and publicly admitted to a stockpile in 2012;
a foreign ministry spokesman said the weapons would only be used against foreign intervention. There is! In fact there have been several.
The first treaty banning chemical weapons actually predates their use. At the 1899 Hague Convention signatories agreed to not use Asphyxiating or Deleterious Gases.
Germany France and the UK broke this agreement during WWI. Currently chemical weapons are banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention a treaty adopted by the General assembly of the United nations that took effect in 1997.
It bans the creation and use of chemical weapons mandates their destruction and encourages international cooperation in chemistry and the chemical trades.
Five countries have not signed the treaty: Angola North korea Egypt South Sudan and Syria. The convention is fairly strict about what counts as a chemical weapon.
Agent orange a herbicide and defoliant used by the United states in the Vietnam war does not count as a chemical weapon under the rules of the treaty
despite the fact that it has been linked to cancer heart disease and birth defects. Al Mauroni director of the USAF counterproliferation center in Alabama and author of Chemical Demilitarization:
Public Policy Aspects tells Popular Science that disposal depends on how the weapon was designed: There are two major ways to dispose of chemical weapons:
incineration and neutralization. Incineration uses a tremendous amount of heat to turn the toxic chemical into mostly ash water vapor and carbon dioxide.
Army Explosive Ordinance Demolition teams would use a 10-to-1 ratio of explosives to suspected chemical weapons.
The heat from the explosives will destroy almost all of the chemical agent in the weapons and the very very low concentration of whatever wasn't destroyed was dispersed in the air hopefully harmlessly.
The Army has a mobile chemical weapons disposal unit. The United states has nine chemical weapons sites where America's stockpile of chemical weapons is being disposed.
While the mobile site is getting press related to Syria Mauroni thinks it has a more mundane purpose.
and Mauroni says they both have leakers in their stored chemical weapons so the mobile unit goes out to neutralize the chemical agent.
what you can do is heat up the metal munitions and burn the tonnage that comes with it.
which are used the components to make a chemical weapon that aren't the weapon itself yet
For the weapons themselves? As far as sarin mustard or VX goes they all have challenges says Mauroni.
The countries that have the most experience getting rid of chemical weapons are the United states and Russia owing to their massive Cold war chemical weapons stockpiles.
According to Mauroni Russia had 40000 tons at its peak while the United states amassed around 30000 tons.
which 16 metric tons of chemical weapons that they gave to the United states for disposal. Destruction was completed in 2007
In 1986 Congress passed a law mandating destruction of chemical weapons in the United states and while a tremendous amount of the stockpile has been destroyed the work will continue well into the next decade with the last site set to start disposal in 2020.
It's going to get very expensive very challenging to maintain security to move chemical weapons
Weapons of War-Poison gas Considered uncivilised prior to World war One the development and use of poison gas was necessitated by the requirement of wartime armies to find new ways of overcoming the stalemate of unexpected trench warfare.
In the first month of the war August 1914 they fired tear-gas grenades (xylyl bromide) against the Germans.
Nevertheless the German army was the first to give serious study to the development of chemical weapons
Initial German Experiments In the capture of Neuve Chapelle in October 1914 the German army fired shells at The french which contained a chemical irritant
Fired in liquid form contained in 15 cm howitzer shells against the Russians at Bolimov the new experiment proved unsuccessful with the tear gas liquid failing to vaporise in the freezing temperatures prevalent at Bolimov.
Allied Retaliation Once the Allies had recovered from the initial shock of the Germans'practical application of poison gas warfare a determination existed to exact retaliatory revenge at the earliest opportunity.
In consequence experiments were undertaken to deliver the gas payload in artillery shells. This provided the additional benefits of increasing the target range as well as the variety of gases released.
Phosgene as a weapon was more potent than chlorine in that while the latter was potentially deadly it caused the victim to violently cough and choke.
Mustard gas Remaining consistently ahead in terms of gas warfare development Germany unveiled an enhanced form of gas weaponry against the Russians at Riga in September 1917:
mustard gas (or Yperite) contained in artillery shells. Mustard gas an almost odourless chemical was distinguished by the serious blisters it caused both internally
If the war had continued into 1919 both sides had planned on inserting poison gases into 30%-50%of manufactured shells.
Gas never turned out to be the weapon that turned the tide of the war as was predicted often.
http://www. firstworldwar. com/weaponry/gas. htmin Tooele they had a leak and killed about 6500 sheep were killed after a leak.
Thousands of leaky gas bombs were dumped at sea off the coasts of New jersey and Florida. I wonder if it could be why the dolphins are dying. adaptation lol who is we you
http://www. hi-techcentre. com/2013/09/11/fyi-how-do-you-dispose of-chemical-weapons/You may enjoy the first picture in the article too.
What you are thinking of was a chemical weapons test in the 60s and due to a stuck valve it affected a larger than planned area.
(which actually was used to make the weapons back then.)Starz: That image is taken from the wikimedia commons.
Kelsey's level of ignorance when it comes to chemical weapons is astounding. Its as if he just read a few stories without any fact checking
Most countries with a chemical weapons program today use binary agents. That means there is a primary
and a number of secondary agents that mix together to become the weapon. A lot of precursors have secondary uses such as organophosphates.
Are some chemical weapons easier to destroy than other? There are precursor chemicals which are used the components to make a chemical weapon that aren't the weapon itself yet
and those are easier to dispose because they might have industrial applications and can be sold to companies.
inventing an electromechanical system to trap airplane hijackers the system drops a hijacker through trap doors seals him into a package then drops the encapsulated hijacker through the airplane's specially-installed bomb bay doors
Those are a lot of smoking guns. And the governments stance on it: -We agree that your child got autism after the vaccinations
Their topics are dominated by global warming gun control environmental studies gay rights left leaning political news etc.
GGENUA is against the research of such things as the environment gun control global warming or any number of things that might create opinion based upon evidence in opposition to
That's why I am not against gun control since it would not effect legal gun ownership.
This type of reaction by the way is what triggers a hydrogen bomb. It would fall unimpeded through your body carve a channel through your gut come out through your nether regions and burrow a hole toward the center of the Earth.
Scannon waves me over to the cockpit and places my hand on the gun mount.
It held a 7. 7mm machine gun Scannon later explains to me developed by the Japanese navy.
It also had flattened a beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer an aft cockpit machine gun and no wing armaments.
that of the American Corsair discovered by the spear fishermen. That plate revealed the Corsair's story.
On the way back he and his wingman strafed four Japanese ammunition dumps; an explosion at the last one sent shrapnel into the oil cooler of his plane.
Mccullah placed a distress call and made for the island's western reef. Then he tightened his seat belt locked the canopy back and turned off the plane's engine switch.
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Also to address your misconception about chemical weapons in Iraq. They WERE there at one time. Saddam Hussein used them during the 1980's against Iranian and Kurdish civilians.
#Hiroshima Visualized In the whole of human history thus far nuclear weapons have been used in anger exactly twice.
Sixty-eight years ago today an American B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped Little Boy the first atomic bomb ever used in war on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Between 90000 and 166000 people were killed by the bomb some in the initial blast and others later through radiation poisoning.
Lucas a graphic designer based in Macclesfield England told Popular Science he wanted the work to highlight not just the the dropping of the Atom bomb
Dozens of lines--each representing a historical event leading up to the dropping of the first bomb from Wilhelm R ntgen's discovery of x-rays in 1895 to the first plutonium reprocessing in 1945--all shoot upwards from a single source.
The final image covers the globe in lines from bomb development sites until they converge on Hiroshima.
which was used in the bomb...and 68 years later we are still keeping ourselves busy with extreme nuclear research building particle accelerators with ever increasing luminosity...
if the US had dropped not the bombs. Go back and read about how the Japanese defended the islands of Peleliu Iwo jima Okinawa Philippines.
and children were being trained to defend their homeland-some only with bamboo spears). Even after two atomic bombs were dropped there were Japanese military leaders that wanted to keep fighting.
Yes it is sad that the bombs were used -but it stopped the bloodshed. It brought an end to the war that could have lasted by some estimates 3 more years and cost 7 million more lives.
and less long-term suffering I'd love to hear it. http://www. pjtv. com/s/HAYDIHOW about an'infograph'about how many people are alive today thanks to the bombs?
I'm not advocating for nuclear warfare today-the world is a more complex place
and warfare doesn't occur on a scale that warrants it to say the least.
Let's let history be the judge of the rightness of using the atomic bomb. Never think that war no matter how justified is not a crime.
It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion it ruins itself and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for
In the whole of human history thus far nuclear weapons have been used in anger exactly twice seriously? I would normally would not resort to cussing
For those that say dropping the bombs saved countless American military lives REALLY? So it's OK to kill civilians to protect troops?
nuclear weapons have been used in anger exactly twice..This is about the political issue of using a nuclear weapon human beings.
A liberal view is that there is no excuse to do this and I get the feeling that is the point of this article.
That is why Einstein helped develop this weapon and use it. He was carried the biggest guilt of Hiroshima as it was his equation E=mc2 that made the realization that a small core of uranium could unleash huge amounts of power.
Einsteins urgency was to build the bomb before Hitler could. If Hitler or Japan had that Nuke first...
and the rest of the world would have been crushed had any other Super Power had that bomb first.
You are most likely here today as a byproduct of the US dropping the bomb.
But the U s. knowingly dropped the nuclear bombs on civilians noncombatants. And to everyone making excuses to justify these actions tell me how better off we are because of the thousands of children that were murdered.
Children had strapped bombs to them. And beyond the resistance to the last man our troops would've faced (that would result in hundreds of thousands
Those cities were prime manufacturing hubs with army barracks steal companies and munition facilities. It was Japan's fault for interweaving them in their civilian population.
As were all of the other children in Japan who were trained to suicide bomb tanks and attack soldiers with knives and to commit suicide rather than being captured.
Killing them stopped the war and saved others. And again it wasn't just some glory-shot.
And the civilians in Hiroshima on are their heads As well as are killed the millions the the firebombings leading up to the nuclear bombs
There is no theoretical limit to the size of a fission bomb. However the Hiroshima bomb had only one flash.
The sad part is that out of the some 11000 operational nukes around the world a small fraction of those bombs is all that would be needed to throw the entire planet into nuclear winter.
The bottom line is saved those bombs more lives than they took. Without them the US would have been forced to invade the main islands of Japan
Those bombs ended the war. Actually the funny (not'ha-ha'but ironic) thing about these bombs is that they were completely unnecessary
and were of little if any significance in ending the war. Details here: www. foreignpolicy. com/articles/2013/05/29/the bomb didnt beat japan nuclear world war iimcd Xvice it must suck going through life like that.
They even held contest to see who could kill the most people with a sword.
More innocent people were killed in Nanking than all the people that died to the two bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
but the one thing he never said was that the US shouldn't have dropped the bombs.
If you seriously think that Japan would have surrendered without the dropping of the bombs-you need to go do some further research.
Hundreds of thousands of Philippino's were killed-with their hands tied behind the backs and a bullet in the head.
Yes the atomic bombs were a horrible weapon -but there are far more horrible things people can do to one another
if the US had dropped not the bomb the Japanese would have fought on and today there might not be a Japan.
Yeah I can't understand why we stopped using the nuclear bomb...it is such a life saving device.
We should drop a bomb on every single group that is willing and capable of killing Americans.
U s. Spied On its WORLD WAR II Allies By TIM WEINER***The documents also show that the United states had information suggesting that top members of the Japanese Army were willing to surrender more than three months before the United states dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
No-but it's also absurd to think that the atomic bomb was the only solution.
and murder you with guns knives bombs and gas so why kill our hands-on fun?
Good thing Einstein helped make that bomb a reality or they might have had some nukes with Hebrew names dropped on them too.
Amen and Jebediah don't sound threatening until they are written on the side of two A-bombs on their way to destroy Germany. lol.
Having read a 2 volume set on the submarine warfare in the Pacific and a biography of General Curtis Lemay
I might have discussed a different way to use the Atomic bombs. Submarine warfare in the Pacific may have started out slow
but by the beginning of 1945 Japan was suffering greatly from not getting ships in or out.
General Lemay was the inventor of low level night bombing with incendiary bombs. The firestorms killed more civilians than the two atomic bombs
and destroyed more of the Japanese war machine than the daylight raids which were only hitting about 5%of their targets.
Most important America had the atomic bomb and no one else.@@Chelle12linking particle accelerators to nuclear bombs just demonstrates your ignorance on the subject.
Your credibility is about zero now. Educate yourself! The treat nuclear weapons represent for humanity isn't coming from particle accelerators and associated research
which have nothing to do with a nuclear weapons. It is even not coming from research on nuclear weapons in countries already having them.
It is coming from proliferation of low-end nuclear weapons in countries which do not have it right now
and are trying to acquire the technology and know how to build their own arsenal. And we are talking here about technology it is no longer a research issue it is just a matter to acquire expertise on an existing technology.
Research in nuclear physics benefits to humanity in many manners. From characterization of materials to cancer therapy including energy production.
Associating nuclear research to weapons is naã Â ve. It almost looks like the energy field created by my perpetual motor n
#Engineered Golden Rice May be planted Soon In Philippinesnearly 15 years after its invention farmers in the Philippines could start growing golden rice within a year the BBC reports.
and the MLB wants to make sure every batter stepping up to the plate isn't wielding a ticking wooden time bomb
The average multipiece failures per game i e. the number of bats that shatter into a million shrapnel pieces has gone down from 1. 0 in 2008 to 0. 47 to 2013.
kinda like a car window or bullet proof glass glazing? the wood would still break -but the laminate should make it stay together.
Polyethene is used often in bullet resistant laminates. it is also transparent.:the bat might just look shiny due to a glossy effect of the resin.
I know of at least one Level III NIJ hard plate armour that uses bed liner (polyurethane) to prevent shrapnel
Next thing you know a missile ends up hitting one of our allies rather than one of our adversaries.
In the future (so the beta-version of the story goes) asteroid mining will be inexpensive and will provide enough resources to build space-based solar arrays
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and frills like the Triceratops. Nasutoceratops'unusually elongated forward-facing horns likely served as a sign of dominance and if necessary weapons in the competition for mates.
Once you've got sufficient power online and enough resources to create a self-sustaining underground mining operation a civilization could theoretically thrive indefinitely underground without ever revisiting the surface again.
because I can make my phone mine not some companies vision of what I want.
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